Henrietta Tuzo Wilson

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He was born on oct 24 ottawa and died april 15 toronto. his family was not rich but they still traveled. he was in world war II. he lived 1908-1993. In 1963 wilson developed a concept crucial to the plate-tectonics theory. he suggested that the hawaiian and other volcanic island chains may have formed due to the movement of a plate over a stationary “hotspot” in the mantel.
His parents names are John Armistead and Henrietta Tuzo Wilson. His friends/family use to call him jock or jack. His father was a Scottish engineer, born in 1879, with experience in India and western Canada. He met his future bride, Henrietta Tuzo, while on a holiday in Banff, Alberta. They were married in 1907 and shortly afterward moved to Ottawa. Tuzo's mother Henrietta was a remarkable woman, from whom her son inherited a love of the earth and an appreciation of Canadian history. …show more content…

He also proposed that groups of linear volcanic islands were caused by mantle plumes, foreshadowing W.Jason Morgan’s idea of hotspots. He supported alfred wegener with the plate-tectonics theory. Wilson majored in honors mathematics and physics his first year at the University of Toronto (1926). Wilson led an enormously rich life, as a student traveler attempting to learn geophysics, as a member of the Geological Survey of Canada, as an active researcher at the University of Toronto, as the first principal of the Erindale College, and as director general of the Ontario Science

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